housewife
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“This particular division of private and public, housewife and breadwinner … was built on a flow of cheap fossil fuels and car culture,” she told The 19th.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mona, a housewife with two kids, says her husband has been out of work since the beginning of the war.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hathaway can handle anything, from a despondent housewife to a rifle-toting badass, but I’ve never seen her tasked to do both in a film this brisk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But housewife Nelly Vega believes Fujimori "is going to lead us to something better."
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll walk past, glance casually, pretending to be a housewife, a tourist, someone window shopping.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Tradwife content whitewashes history, but an honest look shows that contempt for housewives was a widespread theme in the past.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
German defence giant Rheinmetall on Sunday sought to smooth over a row caused by comments from its boss comparing Ukrainian factories producing drones to "housewives" making weapons in their kitchens.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
At one point housewives were admonished not to shake their dust mops outdoors lest that contribute to smog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
We went to fetch water together, and we played with empty tuna and tomato paste cans, pretending to cook and be housewives.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
